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To embroider. [Archaic] They shall make a broidered coat. Ex. xxviii. 4.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. Ure.

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

A military coat, made of buff leather. Shak.

Resembling, or characterized by, buff. Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

A kind of small coat.

A thrust in fencing. To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. Prior.

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

ed by up. He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.

A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. "a gay calamanco waistcoat." Tatler.

A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

ll contantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carb…

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.